Events on Friday, February 1

<em>Last Year at Marienbad</em> (1961)

Film

Last Year at Marienbad

Friday 2/ 1 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre

Director Alain Resnais' interrogations of time and memory compelled his reinvention of narrative, culminating in the legendarily enigmatic Last Year in... 

Autolux w/ Health

Music

Autolux

Friday 2/ 1 @ El Rey

Perennially under-the-radar but always extraordinary, Autolux just got the go-ahead to play Coachella in April and now bring their Technicolor noise... 

NHM First Fridays feat. A-Trak w/ Kid Sister

Music: Hip-Hop

A-Trak and Kid Sister

Friday 2/ 1 @ Natural History Museum

Chicago's vibrant hip-hop export Kid Sister and Montreal's turntablist prodigy (and Kanye West's DJ) A-Trak anchor the NHM's second serving of... 

Friday Nights at the Getty feat. Peter Case

Music

Peter Case

Friday 2/ 1 @ The Getty Center

Seasoned singer/songwriter Peter Case brings his down-home, finger-picked folk rock to the Getty Center this evening. Case has come a long... 

<em>Boogie Nights</em> (1997)

Film

Boogie Nights

Friday 2/ 1 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre

Paul Thomas Anderson lays bare the glitzy and gritty details of LA's other industry in 1997's Boogie Nights. Anderson's breakthrough film... 

Bodies of Water w/ Castanets

Music

Bodies of Water

Friday 2/ 1 @ The Echo & Echoplex

Club Underground presents an avant-folk double bill, with Castanets opening for Bodies of Water. Erstwhile denizens of Brooklyn's bottomless experimental-rock scene,... 

<em>Nausica&auml; of the Valley of the Wind</em> (1984)

Film: Animation

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Friday 2/ 1 @ Aero Theatre

Hayao Miyazaki's atypical anime films make for magical affairs. One of his first transcendent syntheses of science fiction and fairy tale,... 

Los Lobos

Music: Global

Los Lobos

Friday 2/ 1 @ UCLA Live at Royce Hall

Los Lobos continue to buck classification three decades seince their original gritty punk strains, Mexican garage rock, and dance-hall power ballads.... 

Farmlab Public Salon presents Qingyun Ma

Special Event

Qingyun Ma

Friday 2/ 1 @ Farmlab

Farmlab grew out of artist Lauren Bon's lengthy experiment Not A Cornfield, in which a parcel of land near downtown was... 

<em>City Streets</em> (1931) and <em>The Miracle Man</em> (1932)

Film

City Streets and The Miracle Man

Friday 2/ 1 @ Hammer Museum

Tonight's pre-Code films enchant with against-the-grain gambles. In the striking Dashiell Hammett adaptation City Streets, heartthrob hero Gary Cooper becomes embroiled... 

Ongoing Events

Tucker Neel: <em>Confabulations</em>

Art

Tucker Neel

Friday 2/ 1 @ Commissary Arts

Frustrated debutantes, overdressed crocodiles, and bandaged aristocrats parade through Tucker Neel's latest exhibition. The LA artist conjures up witty, intriguing imagery... 

Rachel Mason: <em>The Candidate</em>

Art

Rachel Mason

Friday 2/ 1 @ Circus Gallery

There's political art; there's the art of political stagecraft; and then there's The Candidate, the new exhibition of sketches, sculptures, and... 

<em>Projection</em>

Art

Projection

Friday 2/ 1 @ [delete]

This private-residence-turned-gallery's latest offering, Projection, interprets the titular concept both literally and figuratively in an ambitious multimedia group show. The works... 

<em>Wunderlust Berlin</em>

Art: Photography

Wunderlust Berlin

Friday 2/ 1 @ Paul Kopeikin Gallery

Berlin is in perpetual transition. The enduring fountainhead of Western culture is endlessly fascinating to students of art, architecture, and politics,... 

Rosson Crow: <em>Night at the Palomino</em>

Art

Rosson Crow

Friday 2/ 1 @ Honor Fraser

In a departure from her usual allusions to European art, Crow focuses on America, particularly Los Angeles, in her latest collection... 

Angelika J. Trojnarski: <em>Ricochet<br />
</em>

Art

Angelika J. Trojnarski

Friday 2/ 1 @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery

Born in Poland and educated in Germany, Angelika J. Trojnarski depicts desolate cultural landscapes, dismembered bodies, and the barbwired evidence of... 

Rocky Schenck: <em>Los Angeles</em>

Art: Photography

Rocky Schenck

Friday 2/ 1 @ M+B Gallery Los Angeles

Known for haunting images that envelop the viewer in an uneasy haze, Rocky Schenck finds beauty in rural landscapes and unremarkable... 

The Wooster Group: <em>Hamlet</em>

Theatre

Hamlet

Friday 2/ 1 @ REDCAT

The Wooster Group has been at the forefront of American experimental theatre, cultivating their own language — a fusion of sophisticated... 

Matthew Heller: <em>Everything Is a Love Story</em>

Art

Matthew Heller

Friday 2/ 1 @ DCA Fine Art

Matthew Heller has stripped down his busy aesthetics for something more minimal, without straying from his trademark shadowy figures and text.... 

Nicole Cohen: <em>Please Be Seated</em>

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Friday 2/ 1 @ The Getty Center

Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she... 

<em>Callaloo: Visions of the Black Atlantic</em>

Art

Callaloo

Friday 2/ 1 @ Pounder-Koné Art Space

Don't call Pounder Koné Art Space a "gallery." Owner CCH Pounder wants you to think of her and her husband's venue... 

Dustin Yellin

Art

Dustin Yellin

Friday 2/ 1 @ Samuel Freeman

Dustin Yellin does not suspend exotic crimson seaweed inside his freestanding resin columns — it just looks like it. What he... 

<i>Steep</i>

Film

Steep

Friday 2/ 1 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre

Like Werner Herzog's slo-mo documentary on ski-flying The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974), Steep conveys the breathless exhilaration of an... 

<em>Artist/Gallerist</em>

Art

Artist/Gallerist

Friday 2/ 1 @ another year in LA

Gallery owners spend the majority of their working lives combing through an ever-growing pile of art, searching for a particular brand... 

Bill Owens: <I>Suburbia</i> and <I>Leisure</i>

Art: Photography

Bill Owens

Friday 2/ 1 @ DNJ Gallery

Photographer Bill Owens skillfully captures Americana in his two series Suburbia and Leisure. The former, an early-1970s photo essay, features domestic... 

Kyoung Ha Yoo, Jon Tarry & John Krawczyk

Art

Kyoung Ha Yoo, Jon Tarry & John Krawczyk

Friday 2/ 1 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery

The trio of contemporary artists assembled for the first show of the year at the Lawrence Asher Gallery draws inspiration from... 

Einar and Jamex de la Torre: <em>New Colonies in the New World</em>

Art

Einar & Jamex de la Torre

Friday 2/ 1 @ Koplin del Rio Gallery

Brothers Einar and Jamex couldn't possibly deny the influence of their heritage — their blown-glass and mixed-media works radiate with the... 

Neil Farber: <em>New Works</em>

Art

Neil Farber

Friday 2/ 1 @ Richard Heller Gallery

At first glance, Neil Farber's vivid, whimsical drawings seem to capture all the ignorant bliss of childhood, but their darker intentions... 

Sheng Qi: <em>History in Black and Red</em>

Art

Sheng Qi

Friday 2/ 1 @ DF2

Renowned Chinese artist Sheng Qi lived in exile in Europe for a decade after the Tiananmen Square massacre. Before fleeing China,... 

<em>The Cut</em>

Theatre

The Cut

Friday 2/ 1 @ Rude Guerrilla Theater Company

British playwright Mark Ravenhill gives theater company Rude Guerilla another opportunity to stage the U.S premieres of his work. Past collaborations... 

<em>The Imaginary 20th Century</em>

Art

The Imaginary 20th Century

Friday 2/ 1 @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach

There was a time when the 20th century seemed like an unimaginable and distant future. The Orange County Museum of Art... 

<em>Girly Group Show</em>

Art

Girly Group Show

Friday 2/ 1 @ Ghettogloss Presents: An art conglomerate on the move

This exhibition at Silverlake's favorite gallery/alt-culture hangout features the work of Noel ILL, Jenny Mollen, and Jessica Garrison among a sizeable... 

Virginia Katz: <I>Deliberations Through Practice... piecing things together</i>

Art

Virginia Katz

Friday 2/ 1 @ Jancar Gallery

LA's Virginia Katz uses a complex mixed-media process that involves so many layers of hand-worked pigments and liquids, her art can... 

Marco Almera, Bryan Cunningham, and Krystopher Sapp

Art

Marco Almera, Bryan Cunningham, and Krystopher Sapp

Friday 2/ 1 @ La Luz de Jesus

Hollywood's La Luz sticks to what it knows best with another collection of high-minded lowbrow art. Featured in this month's show... 

Chinatown Gallery Exhibitions

Art

Chinatown Gallery Exhibitions

Friday 2/ 1 @ Various Chinatown galleries

As Chinese New Year celebrations bring you to Chinatown, remember that the neighborhood is also home to dozens of contemporary art... 

Francis Al&#255;s: <I>Politics of Rehearsal</I>

Art

Francis Alÿs

Friday 2/ 1 @ Hammer Museum

Pushing a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City, moving a mountain several inches, hiring a stripper who never... 

Karen Liebowitz: <I>Leviathan</i>

Art

Karen Liebowitz

Friday 2/ 1 @ Rosamund Felsen Gallery

The empowered female subjects of Karen Liebowitz's paintings exist in a fantasyland encompassing mythology, religious tales, and the contemporary world. For... 

<em>First Generation: Art in Claremont 1907-1957</em>

Art

First Generation

Friday 2/ 1 @ Claremont Museum of Art

Nestled 30 minutes outside of the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles lies Claremont — not known for much other than... 

<em>Freeze Frame: Five Decades of Photographs by Douglas Kirkland</em>

Art: Photography

Freeze Frame

Friday 2/ 1 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences

The Academy honors Douglas Kirkland's carefully composed photography with Freeze Frame, an exhibit of celebrity portraits riddled with familiar faces. Besides... 

<em>Under the Influence: A Tribute to Stan Lee</em>

Art

Under the Influence

Friday 2/ 1 @ Gallery 1988

Looking through Gallery 1988's roster of artists, it's easy to spot the legacy of the giants of alt-culture illustration and progressive... 

Hiromi Tsuchida: <em>Photographs 1969-2004 </em>

Art: Photography

Hiromi Tsuchida

Friday 2/ 1 @ Michael Dawson Gallery

Renowned Japanese photographer Hiromi Tsuchida has trained his lens on facets of ordinary life throughout his lengthy career. Tsuchida's first solo... 

<em>Poster Renaissance 2</em>

Art

Poster Renaissance 2

Friday 2/ 1 @ New Image Art

New Image Art owner Marsea Goldberg remembers when posters were a vehicle for edgy, urban art and illustration — and so... 

<em>Special Relationship</em>

Art

Special Relationship

Friday 2/ 1 @ The Scion Installation LA Space

Britain's Scrawl Collective is an emerging group of post-illustration urban romantics. They bring their ramped-up aesthetic energy to the States this... 

<i>My Kid Could Paint That</i>

Film: Documentary

My Kid Could Paint That

Friday 2/ 1 @ Various locations

An abstract-art prodigy for the digital age, four-year-old Marla Olmstead is a rare bird indeed. In My Kid Could Paint That,... 

Chris Anthony: <em>I'm the Most Normal Person I Know</em>

Art: Photography

Chris Anthony

Friday 2/ 1 @ Corey Helford Gallery

Chris Anthony inhabits a strange, haunting world in his new exhibition. Influenced by childhood visions and containing authentically dreamlike narratives, Anthony's... 

Materials & Applications: <em>Density Fields</em>

Art

Materials & Applications: Density Fields

Friday 2/ 1 @ Materials & Applications

Experimental-architecture and landscape-research center M&A is a lightning rod for visionary thinkers, bringing the brightest artists and architects together to explore... 

Ruby Osorio: <em>Looking Through the Blind</em>

Art

Ruby Osorio

Friday 2/ 1 @ Cherry and Martin

Los Angeles artist Ruby Osorio's collection at Cherry and Martin Gallery was heavily influenced by her recent trip to Athens. Surrounded... 

Masao Yamamoto

Art: Photography

Masao Yamamoto

Friday 2/ 1 @ Craig Krull Gallery

In his latest collection of photographs for Santa Monica's Craig Krull Gallery, Japanese artist Masao Yamamoto's work is somber and still,... 

Tim Sullivan: <em>Perfect Entrance </em>and Colin Roberts: <em>The Inscrutable Immutable</em>

Art

Tim Sullivan and Colin Roberts

Friday 2/ 1 @ Steve Turner Contemporary

Photographer and video artist Tim Sullivan, the highlight of last year's OC Biennial, inserts himself into bizarrely macabre and possibly drug-induced... 

Daniel Richter: <em>Rock Und Polizei</em>

Art

Daniel Richter

Friday 2/ 1 @ Regen Projects

German painter Daniel Richter's expressionistic, figurative works are both dark and disarming. With influences that range from Goya to comic books... 

<em>Victory</em>

Theatre

Victory

Friday 2/ 1 @ The Fountain Theatre

South African playwright Athol Fugard's work demonstrates the power of theatre to incite social transformation. Fugard's plays have addressed the subject... 

Art

Neil Campbell and Peter Schuyff

Friday 2/ 1 @ The Balmoral

This Venice Beach gallery's latest endeavor juxtaposes the work of Dutch artist Peter Schuyff and Vancouver-based Neil Campbell. Schuyff's paintings are... 

Jean Michel Crettaz: <em>Quasar</em>

Art

Jean Michel Crettaz

Friday 2/ 1 @ SCI-Arc

Head of the Visual Studies Program at SCI-Arc Jean-Michel Crettaz has plenty of experience, having studied in Switzerland, at the ultra-exclusive... 

Choi Jeong-Hwa: <I>Truth</i>

Art

Choi Jeong-Hwa

Friday 2/ 1 @ REDCAT

Interdisciplinary Korean wunderkind and founder of the Gaseum Studio, Choi Jeong-Hwa obliterates the boundaries between visual art, graphic/industrial design, and architecture,... 

<em>(Untitled) u = ____ [a photographic group show]</em>

Art: Photography

(Untitled) u = ____ [a photographic group show]

Friday 2/ 1 @ Fette's Gallery

Twenty-five photographers working in cities around the world were given a simple task: to take an 11 x 14-inch self-portrait —... 

<em>Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson</em>

Theatre

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

Friday 2/ 1 @ Kirk Douglas Theatre

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Center Theatre Group's world-premiere musical, busts out of the theatrical gate with energetic, rapier wit. Colored by... 

Victor Burgin: <I>The Little House</i>

Art

Victor Burgin

Friday 2/ 1 @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture

The Little House, Victor Burgin's new project at the MAK Center, explores the potential of narrative sound installation. Selections from Jean-François... 

<I>La Vida Lowrider: Cruising the City of Angels</i>

Art

La Vida Lowrider

Friday 2/ 1 @ Petersen Automotive Museum

The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the... 

Michael Asher

Art

Michael Asher

Friday 2/ 1 @ Santa Monica Museum of Art

Rather than create new spaces and pieces, conceptual mixed-media artist Michael Asher prefers to deconstruct and punctuate extant spaces with found... 

<em>Casting a Shadow: Creating the Alfred Hitchcock Film</em>

Film

Alfred Hitchcock

Friday 2/ 1 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences

Stylized, self-mythologizing director Alfred Hitchcock would have you believe him to be a one-man originality machine — when, in fact, his... 

<em>Lights! Camera! Glamour!</em>

Art: Photography

Lights! Camera! Glamour!

Friday 2/ 1 @ California Heritage Museum

George Hurrell shot studio stars as they are remembered today: glamorous, graceful, and a tad theatrical. With his sophisticated black-and-white blowups,... 

<em>Modern American Sculpture</em>

Art

Modern American Sculpture

Friday 2/ 1 @ Forum Gallery

Forum Gallery usually sets the gold standard for classical figurative painting, exhibiting works ranging from the creamy, high-res romanticism of Steven... 

Scott Thompson: <em>Scottastrophe</em>

Comedy

Scott Thompson

Friday 2/ 1 @ The Steve Allen Theater

Scott Thompson (of immortally beloved sketch-comedy crew the Kids in the Hall) drops his new one-man show on the Steve Allen... 

Alex Steinweiss:<em> Creator of the Album Cover</em>

Art

Alex Steinwiess

Friday 2/ 1 @ Robert Berman Gallery

Rocker/designer Kevin Reagan and Juxtapoz's Greg Escalante co-curate this survey of images by Alex Steinweiss. In 1939, the Columbia Records packaging... 

<i>SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s</i>

Art

SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s

Friday 2/ 1 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Exhibitions addressing mythologies of Southern California are suddenly seemingly ubiquitous. The Orange County Museum of Art's Art Since the 1960s: California...